Rockin' Robin's News Flash! - Thursday July 18th

Episode Transcript

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It's rock and Robin's newsflash rocks onMadison's classic rock one on one point five
IBAFM. We're off on a Thursdayafternoon. Pretty great today, weatherways through
across America's dairy land. As wewelcome in news director Robin Colbert from news
Talk thirteen ten W eight Am.Robin, how are you. I'm doing

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just fine. I see big timecrime in your hometown, not hometown where
you live now some prairie. Lastnight. I didn't even hear about this.
You're filling me in. Well,how about that? Yeah, a
teenager was shot in the hand.Whoa last night? Cops called just after
nine o'clock to the six hundred blockof Elizabeth Lane, nowhere near me.

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Okay, well then you're sick.Nobody else was injured and the shooting.
Police do believe this was targeted,and nobody is in custody as of yet.
So I'm shot in the hand.I'm guessing the team's going to be
okay. Yeah, I live onthe far east out of some prairie,
so like I'm not, I don'teven I mean, our address is somen
Prairie, but you could secede fromsun Prairie and may come your own Marshall

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because we're so close to Are youcloser to Marshall? Yeah? Okay.
High levels of E. Cole Ihave been found in several areas of Rock
County. Public health officials say it'slikely dude all the heavy rains and runoff
E. Cole I detected in YaharaRiver, Badfish Creek, Turtle Creek,
and the Rock River as well.D N are also investigating a pair of
fish kills in southern Wisconsin. Thesekills were on the Yahara River in Stonton

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and the Buffalo Lake Watershed in Marquette, Green Lake and Columbia Counties. It
is the last day of the rnC in Milwaukee, with former President Trump
tonight set to accept the GOP nomination. Trump also now selling shoes featuring a
picture from the moments after the assassinationattempt on him last weekend. A company

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owned by Trump is putting these shoes, called Fight Fight Fight high Tops,
on sale. The side of theshoes have a picture of Trump with his
fist raised and blood splattered across hisface, with the words fight Fight Fight
below it. So they're called fightFight Fight high Tops. Yeah, it's
a mouthful, it sure. Is. But that's because you know, he

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gave the three fight. So that'swhat they're the marketing of an attempted assassination.
Yay, that doesn't sit well withme. It's twenty twenty four.
Does anything surprise you? Now itshouldn't. I mean there were bibles earlier.
I mean, but a man died. I don't know. I find
it a bit a bit much bythe many others won't because they're gonna be

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I'm sure snatching up these shoes.They're limited to five thousand pairs. They
cost about three hundred bucks. Okay. President Biden can't catch anything other than
COVID these days, he can't catcha break. And now he yeah,
he is self isolating after he caughtCOVID and some sad news to pass along

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at the Henry Vilis Zoo, Sparky, a beloved harbor seal, had to
be euthanized. Sparky was twenty sixyears old. It's a year older than
the average life expectancy for a maleharbor seal in the wild. He had
been receiving long term care for chroniceye and dental disease, and recently they
discovered Sparky had also developed heart diseaseand pneumonia. You know, he loved

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a good life. If I didthat math right, he saw the nineties,
yeah, before the millennia. It'sa lot of life. If you're
if you're having a drink tonight,pour one out. Yeah, a toast
to Sparky. There we go,the Harbor Seal, The Harbor Seal.
All right, thank you, Rovin. Coming back. We'll do some ain
c DC, the Rolling Stones Journey, plus have another pair of tickets to

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give away too for Sansana that Onenessto were at the American Family Shirt's Amphitheater
July the twenty sixth. We're backin a few minutes. So what at
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